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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 9 – 15)

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Topical Highlight. Decisions from Indian Courts. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is gearing up for its 12th Ministerial Conference, which will take place in Geneva from November 30 to December 3. Ensuring Access to TB drugs: Is Compulsory License the Way? The Delhi High Court in Krown Biscuit Pvt. Richfield Industries Pvt.

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AIPPI Congress (Report 1): Is IP the "bogeyman" in access to Covid-19 vaccines?

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This is the first in-person Congress since London hosted in 2019, so it was only apt that the first panel session was on the topic of IP and Covid-19. The debate that surrounded the waiver proposal kept (and keeps) WTO busy and culminated on 17 June 20222 at the WTO Ministerial Conference.

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Full Of Sound And Query, Signifying Something: Recent Noise Over Acoustic Trademarks

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Ardagh itself seems to suggest that it means sound can be a trademark under the same rules as other trademarks, but that the unique issues endemic to sound trademarks will nonetheless influence any final decisions on registration and enforceability. 2534 (1991) and the issuance of Ministerial Regulation No. 2560 (2017).

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An Obituary to the TRIPS ‘Waiver’: Lessons from an Imperfect Response 

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The TRIPS waiver, which became a hot topic for debates around multilateralism from October 2020, brought to the forefront the international community’s inaction and paralysis in the face of a global crisis of unprecedented scale. Part of the reason behind the WTO’s inefficient decision-making is its consensus-based model.

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